「自省録」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Meditations
マルクス・アウレリウスが「自省録」で何度も使う、英語の頻出4,000語に入らない40語です。先に覚えておくと、最初の章がずっと読みやすくなります。各単語に発音記号、意味、本文の例文をつけました。
thou/ˈðaʊ/なんじ, そなた本文に857回
'If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening.
unto/ˈəntu/…に, の方へ, まで本文に474回
The ideal Wise Man is sufficient unto himself in all things (αὐταρκής); and knowing these truths, he will be happy even when stretched upon the rack.
thee/ˈði/なんじを本文に343回
'Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry?
doth/ˈdɔθ/doの三人称・単数・現在形本文に268回
'Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good;' 'doth any man offend?
thyself/ˌðaɪˈsɛɫf/なんじ自身本文に223回
Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself, think and meditate upon those good parts and especial gifts, which thou hast observed in any of them that live with thee:
whatsoever/ˌhwətsoʊˈɛvɝ/whatever の強調形本文に149回
… and to do my business, whatsoever it be, thoroughly …
thine/ˈðaɪn/なんじの本文に71回
… like the Roman, bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things …
wilt/ˈwɪɫt/=will本文に42回
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/気質, 性質本文に42回
… as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, eminent in the dispositions of them that live with thee, especially when all at once …
rational/ˈɹæʃənəɫ/理性を備えた本文に41回
… by how much that which ministers unto it doth excel; the one being a rational substance, and a spirit …
philosopher/fəˈɫɑsəfɝ/哲学者本文に38回
Cyprus has been from time immemorial a meeting-place of the East and West, and although we cannot grant any importance to a possible strain of Phœnician blood in him (for the Phoenicians were no philosophers), yet it is quite likely that through Asia Minor he may have come in touch with the Far East.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/愛情, 好意, 恋情本文に38回
Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so.
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/を運行を妨げる本文に34回
… of what kind of universe it is: And that there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature …
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/やがて, まもなく本文に34回
For all these things, if once though but for a while, they begin to please, they presently prevail, and pervert a man's mind, or turn a man from the right way.
worldly/ˈwɝɫdɫi/この世の, 現世の本文に33回
… bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things, and the 'cutting away of all lower delectations.'
honour/ˈɑnɝ/儀礼本文に31回
Two years later Faustina brought him a daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him.
conceit/kənˈsit/奇想, 気まぐれ, 思いつき本文に30回
To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure.
behold/bɪˈhoʊɫd/見よ本文に30回
Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/反対の, 相いれない本文に29回
Secondly, when she either is averse from any man, or led by contrary desires or affections, tending to his hurt and prejudice; such as are the souls of them that are angry.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/悲しむ, 嘆く本文に28回
… and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased with anything that happens in the world, is direct apostacy from the nature of the universe …
indifferent/ˌɪnˈdɪfɝənt/よくも悪くもない, 平均的な本文に28回
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent (ἀδιάφορα).
fancy/ˈfænsi/空想, 想像本文に28回
Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good …
conceive/kənˈsiv/を心に抱く, 思う, を思いつく本文に28回
By whatever means induced, he had conceived the project of proclaiming himself emperor as soon as Marcus, who was then in feeble health …
soeverどんな…でも, たとえどのように…とも本文に25回
… whatsoever it be, and in what respect soever it be, that it is fair and goodly …
offend/əˈfɛnd/反する, そむく本文に25回
It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee?'
divine/dɪˈvaɪn/見抜いた本文に25回
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name.
esteem/əˈstim/尊敬, 尊重本文に24回
… (not interrupted, with any other cares and distractions,) in the study and esteem of philosophy: to be bountiful and liberal in the largest measure …
grief/ˈɡɹif/深い悲しみ, 悲嘆本文に24回
The emperors great grief was that he must needs engage in the horrors of civil strife.
apprehension/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/理解[力]本文に22回
He would not hastily give over the search of the matter, as one easy to be satisfied with sudden notions and apprehensions.
whereof[…について]…するところの本文に20回
… but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature, whereof thou art a part.
perchance/pɝˈtʃæns/たぶん, おそらく本文に19回
… and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success.
commend/kəˈmɛnd/をほめる, 賞賛する本文に19回
Moreover, that he was never commended by any man, as either a learned acute man …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/立ち去る, 出発する本文に19回
Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life.
sociable/ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/社交的な, 交際じょうずな本文に18回
… an aged man; a sociable man; a Roman …
whereby/hwɛɹˈbaɪ/…によって…するところの本文に18回
… but also because that intellective faculty in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and to order all thy actions by that knowledge …
deed/ˈdid/行為, 行動本文に18回
… that whatsoever it is that hath happened unto thee, is in very deed no such thing of itself, as a misfortune …
providence/ˈpɹɑvədəns/将来に対する配慮本文に17回
… or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.'
endeavour/ɪnˈdɛvɝ/努力する本文に17回
From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about …
emperor/ˈɛmpɝɝ/皇帝本文に17回
Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.
likewise/ˈɫaɪˌkwaɪz/同様に本文に17回
and how many already, who once likewise prosecuted their enmities, suspected, hated, and fiercely contended, are now long ago stretched out, and reduced unto ashes?
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